[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Vedic Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda) › [Upaniṣads](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad) › [Principal (early) Upaniṣads](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya) › [Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.mundaka) › 3.2 # Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad 3.2 Muṇḍakopaniṣad 3.2 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [3.2.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.mundaka.3.2.1) sa vedaitat paramaṃ brahma dhāma yatra viśvaṃ nihitaṃ bhāti śubhram. upāsate puruṣaṃ ye hy akāmās te śukram etad ativartanti dhīrāḥ. > 1. He knows that Supreme Brahma-abode, > Founded on which the whole world shines radiantly. > They who, being without desire, worship the Person (Purusha) > And are wise, pass beyond the seed (\_śukra\_) \[of rebirth\] here. > 2. He who in fancy forms desires, > Because of his desires is born \[again\] here and there. > But of him whose desire is satisfied, who is a perfected soul (\_kṛtātman\_), > All desires even here on earth vanish away. > — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads ### [3.2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.mundaka.3.2.2) kāmān yaḥ kāmayate manyamānaḥ sa kāmabhir jāyate tatra tatra. paryāptakāmasya kṛtātmanas tv ihaiva sarve pravilīyanti kāmāḥ. ### [3.2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.mundaka.3.2.3) nāyam ātmā pravacanena labhyo na medhayā na bahunā śrutena. yam evaiṣa vṛṇute tena labhyas tasyaiṣa ātmā vivṛṇute tanūṃ svām. > 3. This Soul (Ātman) is not to be obtained by instruction, > Nor by intellect, nor by much learning. > He is to be obtained only by the one whom He chooses; > To such a one that Soul (Ātman) reveals His own person > (\*tanūm svām\*). > — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads ### [3.2.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.mundaka.3.2.4) nāyam ātmā balahīnena labhyo na ca pramādāt tapaso vāpy aliṅgāt. etair upāyair yatate yas tu vidvāṃs tasyaiṣa ātmā viśate brahma dhāma. > 4. This Soul (Ātman) is not to be obtained by one destitute of > fortitude, > Nor through heedlessness, nor through a false notion of > austerity (\*tapas\*). > But he who strives by these means, provided he knows— > Into his Brahma-abode this Soul (Ātman) enters. > — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads ### [3.2.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.mundaka.3.2.5) samprāpyainam ṛṣayo jñānatṛptāḥ kṛtātmāno vītarāgāḥ praśāntāḥ. te sarvagaṃ sarvataḥ prāpya dhīrā yuktātmānaḥ sarvam evāviśanti. > 5. Attaining Him, the seers (\*ṛṣi\*) who are satisfied with knowledge, > Who are perfected souls (\*kṛtātman\*), from passion free (\*vīta- > rāga\*), tranquil— > Attaining Him who is the universally omnipresent, those wise, > Devout souls (\*yuktātman\*) into the All itself do enter. > — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads ### [3.2.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.mundaka.3.2.6) vedāntavijñānasuniścitārthāḥ sannyāsayogād yatayaḥ śuddhasattvāḥ. te brahmalokeṣu parāntakāle parāmṛtāḥ parimucyanti sarve. > 6. They who have ascertained the meaning of the Vedānta- > knowledge, > Ascetics (\*yati\*) with natures purified through the application of > renunciation (\*saṃnyāsa-yoga\*)— > They in the Brahma-worlds at the end of time > Are all liberated beyond death. > — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads ### [3.2.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.mundaka.3.2.7) gatāḥ kalāḥ pañcadaśa pratiṣṭhā devāś ca sarve pratidevatāsu. karmāṇi vijñānamayaś ca ātmā pare 'vyaye sarva ekībhavanti. > 7. Gone are the fifteen parts according to their station, > Even all the sense-organs (\*deva\*) in their corresponding > divinities! > One’s deeds (\*karman\*) and the self that consists of understand- > ing (\*vijñāna-maya ātman\*)— > All become unified in the supreme Imperishable. > — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads ### [3.2.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.mundaka.3.2.8) yathā nadyaḥ syandamānāḥ samudre 'staṃ gacchanti nāmarūpe vihāya. tathā vidvān nāmarūpād vimuktaḥ parāt paraṃ puruṣam upaiti divyam. > 8. As the flowing rivers in the ocean > Disappear, quitting name and form, > So the knower, being liberated from name and form, > Goes unto the heavenly Person, higher than the high. > — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads ### [3.2.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.mundaka.3.2.9) sa yo ha vai tat paramaṃ brahma veda brahmaiva bhavati. nāsyābrahmavit kule bhavati. tarati śokaṃ tarati pāpmānaṃ guhāgranthibhyo vimukto 'mṛto bhavati. > 9. He, verily, who knows that supreme Brahma, becomes very Brahma. In his family no one ignorant of Brahma arises. He crosses over sorrow. He crosses over sin (\_pāpman\_). Liberated from the knots of the heart, he becomes immortal. > — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads ### [3.2.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.mundaka.3.2.10) tad etad ṛcābhyuktam. > 10. This very \[doctrine\] has been declared in the verse:— They who do the rites, who are learned in the Vedas, who are intent on Brahma, They who, possessing faith (\_śraddhayan\_), make oblation of themselves, even of the one seer— To them indeed one may declare this knowledge of Brahma, When, however, the Muṇḍaka-vow has been performed by them according to rule.’ > — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads ### [3.2.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.mundaka.3.2.11) kriyāvantaḥ śrotriyā brahmaniṣṭhāḥ svayaṃ juhvata ekarṣiṃ śraddhayantaḥ. teṣām evaitāṃ brahmavidyāṃ vadeta śirovrataṃ vidhivad yais tu cīrṇam. ### [3.2.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.mundaka.3.2.12) tad etat satyam ṛṣir aṅgirāḥ purovāca naitad acīrṇavrato 'dhīte. namaḥ paramarṣibhyo namaḥ paramarṣibhyaḥ. > 11. This is the truth. The seer (\_ṛṣi\_) Aṅgiras declared it in ancient time. One who has not performed the vow does not read this. Adoration to the highest seers! Adoration to the highest seers! > — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads ## Translations (2) - [The Thirteen Principal Upanishads](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.mundaka~en-hume.3.2.p2) — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, English - [The Upanishads, Part II (SBE 15)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.mundaka~en-muller.3.2.1) — Friedrich Max Müller 1884, English ## Commentaries (3) - [Muṇḍakopaniṣadbhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.mundaka!sankara.6.2.1.p1) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit - [Padapāṭha (sandhi-resolved text, TITUS)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.mundaka!padapatha.3.2.1) — Sanskrit - [Commentary of Upaniṣadbrahmayogin](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.mundaka!upanisadbrahmayogin.5.4) — Upaniṣadbrahmayogin 1700, Sanskrit ## Linked texts (4) - [Prāṇatoṣiṇī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.general.sakta.pranatosini.6.15.61) — Rāmatoṣaṇa Śarman 1796, Sanskrit - [Sūtasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.sutasamhita.8.88) — Sanskrit - [Siddhāntasiddhāñjana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.advaita.sastra.siddhantasiddhanjana.3.p329) — Kṛṣṇānanda Sarasvatī 1640, Sanskrit - [Prabhañjana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.suddhadvaita.vitthala.prabhanjana.6.2.6) — Viṭṭhalanātha 1518, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.mundaka.3.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.mundaka.3.2) · Pramāṇa